How can I point Jenkins to another .jenkins home directory?

Question

I have the working /.jenkins folder under a specific user in home on Linux. I want to start Jenkins with another user, but re-use the .jenkins folder of the other user. How

Answer 1

In Tomcat 5 you can modify tomcat.conf and add the path:

export JAVA_OPTS="-DJENKINS_HOME=/home/jenkins"

Restart Jenkins.